It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
If I make a song where I'm happy, I sound completely mad - I think my voice is better-suited for sadder songs.
I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
I try and get about eight hours of sleep every single night. And I like to think that I drink more water than anyone, ever.
I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!
We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall
